Book Review: The Pelvic Girdle, 4th edition by Diane Lee (major contributor Linda-Joy Lee) Did you know that our understanding of how the pelvis moves has changed in just the last few years? Of all the body regions I’ve treated clinically, I have always found the pelvic girdle to be the most complicated and even […]
Category: Sport and exercise medicine discipline
Real-life gait solutions (not just cyborg videos!!)
With apropulsive cyborg gait videos, IQ measures using gait observation, and distance running clinics to observe and improve biomechanics, the sports medicine community (and the general public) has a widespread interest in the significance of “gait.” In this month’s BJSM Editor’s Choice section (free online!) Noehren, Scholz, and Davis investigate the role of hip mechanics in […]
Moynihan raises major questions about drug studies: Drug benefits exaggerated?
Ray Moynihan’s investigative journalism book — ‘Selling Sickness’ — was a tour de force – impaling the concept of ‘preventive pharmaceutical therapy’ for healthy individuals. If new to this see ‘disease mongering‘. He continues to raise issues that have major health service and public health ramifications. This paper in the BMJ won’t please those whose […]
Dr. Mark Hutchinson’s YouTube Physical Exam Demos at 1.74 Million Views
With 1.74 million video uploads University of Chicago’s Mark Hutchinson is somewhat of a YouTube celebrity. This is a great feat considering his clinician tutorials compete with all those cute animal videos like Slow Loris with a Tiny Umbrella. In all seriousness, Dr. Hutchinson does an outstanding job of demonstrating examination techniques for: Hip and […]
Management of Tennis Elbow – New BMJ Clinical Review (with video!)
A recently published Clinical Review in BMJ offers a concise overview of the Management of Tennis Elbow. In their article, Dr. John Orchard and PT, Alex Kountouris explain tendon mechanics, loading responses and the fundamental principles of effective treatment programmes. They also discuss the current evidence base for newer minimally invasive treatments such as: platelet-rich […]
Hip imaging pathology – the problem of limited specificity: Guest Blog by Dr. David Hughes
I can’t recall the number of times I have had to explain to a patient that an abnormal lumbar spine MR or CT scan is a very common finding among asymptomatic persons. There are numerous similar examples in Sport and Exercise, including studies which have demonstrated significant tibial stress reactions in over 40% of asymptomatic […]
Prof Evert Verhagen comments on the need for more implementation research
By Professor Evert Verhagen In reaction to the guest blog by professor Caroline Finch (May 9th), it is really good to see that the important topic of implementation gets the attention it needs. I’ve heard many times, in relation to van Mechelen’s sequence of prevention [1], that we need more intervention studies. This is whilst […]
Guest Blog by Prof Caroline Finch: Implementation study design and a protocol example
There was considerable discussion at the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport about the need for implementation studies – one could even say there was a certain buzz about this. In my keynote address about the art and science of implementation research, I emphasised that to be most useful such […]
Ultrasound in the Sports Medicine Office – A Top Gear Review Series
Having just attended the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) meeting in Salt Lake City (see BJSM Warm Up Feb 2011) I couldn’t help but be impressed by the progress in ultrasound (US) technology. Smaller, cheaper, better – tremendous advances. Over the next four weeks we will review: i) The AMSSM curriculum for US […]
Obituary for Professor Eric Arthur Newsholme, MA, DSc, (PhD, ScD Camb)
By Lindy Castell Eric Newsholme died peacefully in hospital from heart failure a few hours after slipping into a coma on 17th March 2011. Although those of us who were close to him were well aware of his heart and circulation problems over several years, it was nevertheless a shock and, as many have observed, […]